letter-answering

Updated: May 9, 2025

This was the confession that, reluctantly, yet with a kind of white-lipped bravado, he flung at Betton in answer to the latter's tentative suggestion that, really, the letter-answering job wasn't worth bothering him with a thing that any type-writer could do. "If you mean you're paying me more than it's worth, I'll take less," Vyse rushed out after a pause.

Edith Wharton - Tales of Men and Ghosts